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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am all in again.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Oh I guess you are. Gillmore Girls Gazette with Amy
- 0:19Speaker 2: Sugarman and Danielle Romo, an iHeartRadio podcast. Hell love everybody,
- 0:28Speaker 2: Danielle here, we are finally here.
- 0:34Speaker 3: This is a big exciting day because how great is
- 0:39Speaker 3: this show?
- 0:40Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I don't have words.
- 0:43Speaker 4: Did you love it?
- 0:45Speaker 2: I l O V ed all capital.
- 0:50Speaker 4: And you've never seen this.
- 0:51Speaker 2: I've never seen one episode of the Parenthood.
- 0:54Speaker 4: Oh my god, you're gonna literally really love it. I
- 0:58Speaker 4: mean truly love.
- 1:00Speaker 3: I have a lot of questions for you. But to
- 1:02Speaker 3: bring everybody up to speed, we're talking about Parenthood. We
- 1:05Speaker 3: are rewatching it because you voted for it. It was
- 1:08Speaker 3: what you guys told us to rewatch. We were this
- 1:12Speaker 3: or Mazel, And interestingly you all said this, which I
- 1:17Speaker 3: love Mazel too. Mazel is amazing. But I'm really really happy.
- 1:21Speaker 3: So did you get tear eyed?
- 1:22Speaker 2: It's my first I got tear eyed. I did not cry,
- 1:26Speaker 2: but I got I definitely felt the feels I I
- 1:31Speaker 2: I have. Like I'm a little bit speechless because I
- 1:36Speaker 2: was expecting it a little bit based off of what
- 1:38Speaker 2: you've been teasing. You know, It's like, get your tissues, YadA, YadA, YadA.
- 1:42Speaker 2: But I wasn't expecting it to be this good, and
- 1:45Speaker 2: I don't know why I loved it so much.
- 1:48Speaker 3: I know it's amazing right out the gate, which we'll
- 1:52Speaker 3: we'll talk about. So, first couple of things for you,
- 1:55Speaker 3: are you did you ever watch Friday Night Lights? No,
- 1:59Speaker 3: so it is the same creator a producer of Friday
- 2:04Speaker 3: Night Lights, Jason Cadams, I don't want to say his
- 2:06Speaker 3: name wrong.
- 2:07Speaker 4: Also did Parenthood.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Now, for some reason, I can't remember which came first,
- 2:11Speaker 3: so Jackie, you may need to help me with timelines
- 2:14Speaker 3: a little bit here as we kind.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Of go over things. I think Friday Night Lights came first,
- 2:18Speaker 4: and then Parenthood. I can't exactly remember.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Hood premiered March second, twenty ten, so literally fifteen years ago.
- 2:26Speaker 3: And it was shortly after Gilmore Girls ended, right, because
- 2:30Speaker 3: Lauren in particular looks very similar to how she looked
- 2:36Speaker 3: as Laura Lai when.
- 2:37Speaker 4: The show ended. I don't know if you.
- 2:38Speaker 2: Know it was a few years later, not very long.
- 2:43Speaker 3: So here's a little bit of an interesting story because
- 2:45Speaker 3: the reason we're watching this and people may know this,
- 2:47Speaker 3: but we're going to do some sort of background today
- 2:49Speaker 3: so everybody can kind of know where we're at.
- 2:52Speaker 4: And maybe enjoy these facts.
- 2:55Speaker 3: So Lauren Graham was not originally cast in the role
- 2:59Speaker 3: of Sarah Raverman. It was more Tyrney, who I know,
- 3:05Speaker 3: more Tanny mostly from er.
- 3:06Speaker 4: People know from a million movies.
- 3:08Speaker 3: She'd done a million things terrible. She was diagnosed with
- 3:12Speaker 3: cancer as they were.
- 3:14Speaker 4: Starting production of this show.
- 3:16Speaker 3: She is doing amazing just to you know, circle to that,
- 3:22Speaker 3: but and continues to work and she's great.
- 3:24Speaker 4: I think she did the Affair. Somebody check that, but I.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Think she was on the Affair and was amazing. So
- 3:29Speaker 3: that was many years after.
- 3:31Speaker 4: So they pushed production back. I think the show was
- 3:34Speaker 4: originally going to air in the fall.
- 3:35Speaker 3: They had to push it back to mid season because
- 3:40Speaker 3: of more a Tyranny. I think so Helen Howt was
- 3:44Speaker 3: considered for the role. They eventually Lauren Graham got the part,
- 3:49Speaker 3: and I think they had to reshoot almost all of
- 3:52Speaker 3: the shows they had done, or at least parts because
- 3:56Speaker 3: there's so many family scenes that obviously had to be
- 3:59Speaker 3: re done. I think they were sort of knee deep
- 4:01Speaker 3: into production when all this happened. So that is sort
- 4:04Speaker 3: of an interesting how Lauren Graham came to be Sarah Braverman.
- 4:10Speaker 3: So okay, so I digress from that and go back
- 4:12Speaker 3: to you, What did you think just right out the gate, Like,
- 4:17Speaker 3: did it?
- 4:17Speaker 4: Did it captivate you immediately?
- 4:20Speaker 2: I captivated? It captivated me immediately. I found it interesting because,
- 4:26Speaker 2: not knowing anything about the plot of Parenthood, I wasn't
- 4:31Speaker 2: expecting it to be so about Peter Crass's character, Yeah,
- 4:36Speaker 2: Adam Braverman, like he is at the center of the
- 4:39Speaker 2: show as of now this first pilot episode, and I
- 4:43Speaker 2: wasn't expecting that because look, granted, I know he you know,
- 4:49Speaker 2: he was Lauren's longtime partner and whatnot, but like I
- 4:53Speaker 2: don't really know much about him.
- 4:56Speaker 4: So that's interesting.
- 4:57Speaker 3: So Peter Kralo was coming off of Six Feet, which
- 5:01Speaker 3: was a show I think it was like on HBO Showtime,
- 5:03Speaker 3: but it was a very like award winning show, and
- 5:08Speaker 3: he was sort of coming off the run of that.
- 5:11Speaker 3: And even though this is truly an ensemble and it's
- 5:15Speaker 3: about all the characters, especially in the beginning, all roads
- 5:19Speaker 3: lead to Peter Krauso's character act.
- 5:23Speaker 2: He's very much the narrator. He is the one that
- 5:27Speaker 2: patches together all the storylines.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Exactly, and you open on him, right, yeah.
- 5:33Speaker 3: So you really start with a close up of him
- 5:36Speaker 3: and immediately you're like, all right, who's this guy? And
- 5:38Speaker 3: you quickly learn because it's so smart.
- 5:42Speaker 4: How they do it.
- 5:42Speaker 3: He gets on the phone and then you know, I
- 5:45Speaker 3: think he talks to his dad, who's cranking the cast
- 5:48Speaker 3: is amazing.
- 5:48Speaker 4: Let's let's run to the cast really quick. So craigtie
- 5:50Speaker 4: knowls them, plays like the patriarch of the Braverman family and.
- 5:54Speaker 3: He's from Coach and Poltergeist. So immediately and I think
- 5:59Speaker 3: in the billing's Anne Craig t Nelson, right, so he
- 6:03Speaker 3: gets sort of that special billing. Bonnie Badelia is the mom,
- 6:08Speaker 3: and she'd spent in a million things.
- 6:11Speaker 4: But the thing that I just learned about her is
- 6:13Speaker 4: her brother is McAuley and Kieran Culkin's.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Dax, which was a crazy fact that I was like,
- 6:20Speaker 3: I never knew that until like two weeks ago, and
- 6:25Speaker 3: that is totally interesting. Dax Shephard, this is Dax before
- 6:30Speaker 3: he was the Dax of today. Right, there was no podcast.
- 6:33Speaker 3: I don't think he was married to Kristen Bell. He
- 6:37Speaker 3: was known for punkd.
- 6:39Speaker 4: I think at that point.
- 6:41Speaker 3: I think he had been on Punk and maybe had
- 6:43Speaker 3: done sort of some movies. So then you see Erica Christensen,
- 6:51Speaker 3: who is who I knew the Bestroom swim fan. Interestingly,
- 6:55Speaker 3: the guy who plays her husband Sam, I.
- 6:57Speaker 4: Think he was right, Matail Right.
- 7:00Speaker 3: He's relatively unknown when he was on this, but now you.
- 7:04Speaker 4: Recognize him immediately because he's on Handmaid's Tale.
- 7:07Speaker 3: So Manica Potter, who plays Adam Braverman's wife, is I
- 7:13Speaker 3: know her best because of con Air.
- 7:15Speaker 2: She was Nicholas Huge's wife and.
- 7:21Speaker 4: In the sort of courtyard. It's amazing.
- 7:23Speaker 5: We'll get it that.
- 7:24Speaker 4: All the performances are incredible.
- 7:27Speaker 3: May Whitman plays Lauren Graham's daughter, and you know her
- 7:31Speaker 3: because you know her from Independence Day. She's the president's daughter.
- 7:35Speaker 3: And also I loved her. She's a child after right,
- 7:38Speaker 3: So she was in this movie One Fine Day with
- 7:40Speaker 3: George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer and it's actually like a
- 7:44Speaker 3: great wrong som But anyway, that's the thing about this cast, right,
- 7:48Speaker 3: I don't know if you were doing that, Daniel, where
- 7:49Speaker 3: like I know that person, I know that person. I
- 7:51Speaker 3: know every single person on here.
- 7:53Speaker 2: It's amazing and not one of them bothered me.
- 7:57Speaker 4: Not so true, none of that. None then bother me.
- 8:01Speaker 2: And coming from Bunheads, where you know, we had our
- 8:04Speaker 2: shared feelings. This this cast, every single every single scene
- 8:10Speaker 2: that I saw, I was like, great, great dormances.
- 8:14Speaker 4: It's so well done.
- 8:17Speaker 3: The thing that is a big bummer about Parenthood, similar
- 8:20Speaker 3: to you know other shows, is it.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Always was on the verge of being canceled, Like it
- 8:26Speaker 4: never became a huge hit, but people loved it, right, It.
- 8:30Speaker 3: Was the people that were watching loved it. It just
- 8:34Speaker 3: never became this huge, huge hit, and it was always like.
- 8:37Speaker 4: Is it going to come back? Is it going to
- 8:39Speaker 4: come back?
- 8:39Speaker 3: I think it ended up going what seven is because
- 8:41Speaker 3: seven years? How many seasons do they do?
- 8:44Speaker 2: We're going to need Jackie to tell us that.
- 8:46Speaker 4: Yeah, Jackie, can you let us know how many seasons?
- 8:49Speaker 4: This show went?
- 8:50Speaker 5: Five years, twenty ten to twenty fifteen years. That's it,
- 8:54Speaker 5: one hundred and three episodes.
- 8:56Speaker 4: It's still a lot.
- 8:57Speaker 3: But yeah, it was because it.
- 8:58Speaker 4: Was always all ways on the it was always on
- 9:03Speaker 4: the edge of getting canceled. So anyway, all right, so
- 9:05Speaker 4: we go back.
- 9:06Speaker 3: So we start with Adam Braberman. So what did you
- 9:08Speaker 3: so coming from just watching.
- 9:10Speaker 4: It for the first time.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Danielle, Yeah, tell me what you who you're loving, who
- 9:14Speaker 3: You're intrigued by the thing about the pilot. It's so brilliant,
- 9:18Speaker 3: is you you know every character from the pilot. You
- 9:22Speaker 3: know a lot about all of them right out the gate.
- 9:25Speaker 4: It's kind of wild.
- 9:27Speaker 2: And you're you're gonna you're you just asked me that question,
- 9:29Speaker 2: and I'm immediately I said, in my head, I was
- 9:32Speaker 2: starting to answer it, and then I realized, like as
- 9:35Speaker 2: I was answering it, it's literally everyone so Adam Braberman
- 9:39Speaker 2: I love. I'm very intrigued by him because of his
- 9:43Speaker 2: whole storyline, right he has uh that weird, kind of
- 9:48Speaker 2: toxic y relationship with his dad.
- 9:50Speaker 3: Except that it's also very amazing.
- 9:54Speaker 2: There's something. Yeah, No, it's amazing because they're so close.
- 9:57Speaker 4: There's some problems, there's some there's problems.
- 9:59Speaker 2: There's definitely problems. His wife I'm obsessed with. I think
- 10:04Speaker 2: she is so awesome and so kind of brings him
- 10:07Speaker 2: down because he's kind of, you can tell a little
- 10:10Speaker 2: bit of a dreamer, not a dreamer, but an optimist.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Like everything we are strong and we are fine, and
- 10:17Speaker 2: nothing's going to get in our way, and she's kind
- 10:19Speaker 2: of like the realist, like, hey, there's something, there's something
- 10:22Speaker 2: wrong with our son.
- 10:23Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's not.
- 10:26Speaker 3: The actor who plays the young boy is so good, amazing.
- 10:32Speaker 3: Now he is not aptisic in real life.
- 10:35Speaker 4: But he's so good.
- 10:36Speaker 3: And then the sister is played by Sarah Ramos, who
- 10:40Speaker 3: interestingly is on Chicago med now playing and I think a.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Person on the spectrum.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Yeah, and the sun just so that we can give
- 10:48Speaker 2: him his flowers. His name is Expert Holder. He was
- 10:52Speaker 2: amazing and he plays Max ironically, he's like amazed.
- 10:55Speaker 4: He's just so good.
- 10:56Speaker 3: And the whole.
- 10:57Speaker 4: Family is that.
- 10:58Speaker 2: So that's only like totally intrigues me because there's a
- 11:02Speaker 2: lot that's there, and you can tell that there's like
- 11:05Speaker 2: a balancing act between you know, husband and wife but
- 11:08Speaker 2: also like their son. So there's a lot there that
- 11:11Speaker 2: I'm very intrigued by. And you know, we already kind
- 11:15Speaker 2: of alluded to it, but we find out at the
- 11:16Speaker 2: end of the episode that their son is autistic. And
- 11:19Speaker 2: now that's you know, they're trying to navigate that, which
- 11:23Speaker 2: you know, coming from like from my perspective, I have
- 11:27Speaker 2: a lot of friends who have, you know, children that
- 11:29Speaker 2: are autistic and you know, like, I love that they're
- 11:33Speaker 2: expressing that storyline because there's a lot of people that
- 11:37Speaker 2: can relate to it.
- 11:38Speaker 3: Oh and the way they do it, it's so gritty
- 11:41Speaker 3: and real. That's the thing about Parenthood that I think
- 11:45Speaker 3: I love is that it's just so nuanced. It's so real,
- 11:51Speaker 3: like you're not It's nothing like we complained about with Bunheads,
- 11:55Speaker 3: where like so over the top.
- 11:56Speaker 4: There's nothing over the top.
- 11:58Speaker 2: You can relate to. Everyone can relate to one storyline that's.
- 12:01Speaker 3: In there, and then you immediately know Lauren Graham.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Yeah, and then so then Lauren Graham and May's relationship
- 12:08Speaker 2: is really interesting because of the I mean, the dad
- 12:12Speaker 2: and how he's kind of a not a loser, but
- 12:15Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like just not present.
- 12:26Speaker 4: A couple little things.
- 12:27Speaker 3: So the guy who plays the dad in this episode,
- 12:31Speaker 3: May Whitman's dad, Sarah Braverman's sort of musician drug addict.
- 12:36Speaker 3: The ex does not play him throughout the rest of
- 12:40Speaker 3: the series. I don't know see that guy ever.
- 12:43Speaker 4: Again, I don't think we do it.
- 12:45Speaker 3: It's soon John Corbett from Sex and the City agent
- 12:49Speaker 3: from Sex and the City.
- 12:51Speaker 4: Yes, they'll be playing the dad.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Why does that make me confused?
- 12:56Speaker 4: It's a little weird.
- 12:58Speaker 3: I actually didn't remember that somebody else plays the dad
- 13:02Speaker 3: in the pilot, and that guy is like a recognizable
- 13:06Speaker 3: sort of character actor. I also weirdly think that guy
- 13:11Speaker 3: dated one of my friends or was married to one
- 13:13Speaker 3: of my friends. Oh but he's I've seen him in
- 13:18Speaker 3: a lot of shows, right. I think that originally when
- 13:20Speaker 3: they did it, they just thought this was going to
- 13:22Speaker 3: be a very one seen guy. But later John Corbett
- 13:26Speaker 3: does do quite a number of episodes. So anyway, I
- 13:28Speaker 3: digress on.
- 13:29Speaker 2: That, and then Okay, so I mean that's I cannot
- 13:34Speaker 2: wait to see John Corbett.
- 13:35Speaker 3: As the Yeah, no, it's great, it's really it's really great.
- 13:39Speaker 3: I can't The character's name is escaping me, but it'll come.
- 13:43Speaker 5: Yes, but Barreon hemes and he's you're correct, is only
- 13:46Speaker 5: for this pilot, And John Cabbott shows up in season two,
- 13:49Speaker 5: episode fifteen, and he does ten episodes.
- 13:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:53Speaker 3: The thing that was so amazing is there's a scene
- 13:57Speaker 3: where main women's character in Sarah almost character get arrested
- 14:01Speaker 3: and yeah, you have to go pick them up. And
- 14:05Speaker 3: the performance by May Whitmen is so unbelievable.
- 14:10Speaker 4: Like Lauren Graham. They are great together.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Everything you sort of love about Lauren and alexis Lorlion Rory.
- 14:17Speaker 3: You get why Lauren Graham loves May Whitman so much
- 14:20Speaker 3: because they have also an amazing chemistry right from the
- 14:24Speaker 3: start where Lauren sort of you know, tells May Whitman's
- 14:29Speaker 3: characters She's upset with her, and she goes, you know,
- 14:31Speaker 3: May Whitman's like, it wasn't my weed, kind of trying
- 14:35Speaker 3: to say I'm sorry to her mom. And there's a
- 14:39Speaker 3: scene where you just see her the tears coming into
- 14:42Speaker 3: her eyes and the way she performs the that moment,
- 14:47Speaker 3: You're just like, I totally believe it.
- 14:49Speaker 4: You're just like they seeople are incredible.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Yeah, And the one thing that I liked about you know,
- 14:55Speaker 2: you can fall into the trap of always having to
- 14:57Speaker 2: play a mother daughter relation ship on screen just based
- 15:01Speaker 2: off of how amazing Gilmore Girls was. You know, this
- 15:04Speaker 2: is a mother daughter relationship, but there's there's so much
- 15:08Speaker 2: different than Gilmour Girls. I think even just the type
- 15:12Speaker 2: of person the character that May is playing is so
- 15:14Speaker 2: different than Rory.
- 15:16Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, beyond and Lauren Graham is not Laura Laion.
- 15:23Speaker 3: I agree, she's not so different that it feels uncomfortable, right,
- 15:31Speaker 3: Like she she really is Sarah Braverman, but there's something
- 15:35Speaker 3: about her that's so likable. I don't want to criticize
- 15:40Speaker 3: the v sweet, right, but I believe Lauren Graham is
- 15:44Speaker 3: Lorlai Gilmore, and I believe she is Sarah Braverman.
- 15:48Speaker 4: I just don't believe she is that person in the
- 15:50Speaker 4: C suite.
- 15:52Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I understand that.
- 15:53Speaker 3: I get that, by the way, So I laughed, I
- 15:57Speaker 3: ain't really I'm not gonna lie with because So she
- 15:59Speaker 3: goes on to State with this guy from high school,
- 16:01Speaker 3: and guys, we're not gonna go through it like scene
- 16:03Speaker 3: by scene. We kind of want to give you broad
- 16:05Speaker 3: strokes about the episodes and what we think, because you
- 16:08Speaker 3: guys are.
- 16:08Speaker 4: Gonna want to watch it and just enjoy it.
- 16:11Speaker 5: So she goes on.
- 16:13Speaker 3: So her sister sets her up with the guy from
- 16:15Speaker 3: high school who clearly was her like ext from high school,
- 16:18Speaker 3: who was a honkin high school. I think it's Michael'malley.
- 16:22Speaker 5: Michael Malley, Yeah it is, which was so crazy.
- 16:25Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, Michael Mallie. No, he's awesome.
- 16:30Speaker 2: He's awesome. But like the whole point of it is
- 16:33Speaker 2: is that he's not as cute as he was in
- 16:34Speaker 2: high school.
- 16:35Speaker 4: No, and she goes.
- 16:36Speaker 3: Outside and totally rips onto her sister, which the thing
- 16:40Speaker 3: is about the siblings are totally real siblings who love
- 16:44Speaker 3: each other and can't look like it is and like
- 16:47Speaker 3: her saying like, I know you're sexier, exist attorney. It's
- 16:51Speaker 3: so relatable, right, You're just like, oh my god, this
- 16:55Speaker 3: is every sibling relationship.
- 16:57Speaker 2: But did did I patch it correctly? That they were
- 17:00Speaker 2: previously engaged?
- 17:02Speaker 3: So? I think they were high school sweethearts and he
- 17:05Speaker 3: just gave her a rank.
- 17:06Speaker 4: I don't think they.
- 17:07Speaker 3: Were engaged like a promise ring or whatever, some kind
- 17:10Speaker 3: of like class ring or some type of deal. But
- 17:13Speaker 3: it wasn't you know, some kind of deal, right, I
- 17:16Speaker 3: think they but they weren't engaged. Dad When they're having
- 17:19Speaker 3: Chinese food, and she breaks down and realizes, like.
- 17:23Speaker 4: It's almost like she's judging this guy.
- 17:25Speaker 3: For being a barista and being bald when he's so sweet.
- 17:29Speaker 3: I love that they hook up, right, because you're like, yeah.
- 17:32Speaker 4: I get it, this is it. I like him.
- 17:34Speaker 2: I had to do I did do?
- 17:37Speaker 3: Now were you befuddled by the mysterious condoms.
- 17:40Speaker 4: In the desk.
- 17:41Speaker 2: No, no, not really, I honestly didn't even.
- 17:44Speaker 3: It's funny how Michael Maley's characters like is your dad
- 17:47Speaker 3: having an affair? And like, obviously Sarah Braverman is also
- 17:51Speaker 3: like what are these doing here? So you know, just
- 17:55Speaker 3: a little something to kind of make us go, well,
- 17:57Speaker 3: what is there something going on?
- 17:58Speaker 4: If you don't know about it?
- 17:59Speaker 2: Oh no, oh, I didn't even catch that. I'm going
- 18:01Speaker 2: to rewatch it. Like it didn't clock for me. I
- 18:03Speaker 2: just I think it.
- 18:04Speaker 4: Was like.
- 18:06Speaker 3: That's the interesting thing about Parenthood too, is it it's dense, Right, there's.
- 18:13Speaker 4: A lot happening. It's not dense in.
- 18:15Speaker 3: An annoying way, but you wouldn't want to be like
- 18:17Speaker 3: doing emails while you're watching it because there's so much happening.
- 18:22Speaker 3: I mean, this episode is jam packed. Like we meet
- 18:25Speaker 3: Dax Shepherd's character. He's obviously got this relationship with this
- 18:29Speaker 3: very beautiful, sort of successful woman and he's like they're
- 18:33Speaker 3: sperm in the free.
- 18:35Speaker 2: Oh my god, I literally, I I mean it was
- 18:40Speaker 2: hilarious because I think he it was not a wake
- 18:43Speaker 2: up call for him, but kind of was where he
- 18:45Speaker 2: was like, wait, what is this chick doing and then
- 18:48Speaker 2: he was just like, yeah, I'll have a baby with
- 18:50Speaker 2: you in three years and and I like their storyline.
- 18:55Speaker 2: There is something really fun.
- 18:56Speaker 3: Then were you just so, how did you feel you
- 19:00Speaker 3: see Joy Bryant's character and you meet Jabbar?
- 19:03Speaker 2: Remind me who Jabbar is?
- 19:06Speaker 3: Uh? Did you get to the end this is he
- 19:08Speaker 3: did reveal where he finds out he's a dad.
- 19:13Speaker 2: Oh my god, no, I totally remember this. The names
- 19:16Speaker 2: are just throwing me off. No, I totally remember that
- 19:18Speaker 2: he finds out that he's a dad.
- 19:20Speaker 3: So the sort of I don't know, you call it
- 19:24Speaker 3: a red herring.
- 19:25Speaker 4: Or the like sort of.
- 19:28Speaker 3: Is Jack Shepherd, you know, sort of has this relationship
- 19:32Speaker 3: and he's sort of a floundering musician, but he had
- 19:34Speaker 3: a really good guy and we realized that he had
- 19:38Speaker 3: a baby with a past girlfriend five years earlier that
- 19:43Speaker 3: he never knew about. And so he meets his kid,
- 19:46Speaker 3: and don't you love how he comes to the dinner
- 19:49Speaker 3: and says that Adam Ramerman, Like you can tell they
- 19:53Speaker 3: all go to Adam, right, he is the guy, He's
- 19:56Speaker 3: the big brother that runs the family, right, and he's like,
- 20:00Speaker 3: we have.
- 20:00Speaker 2: A oh my god.
- 20:06Speaker 4: Yeah, So lovely because Max comes out and wants to
- 20:11Speaker 4: go to his baseball game.
- 20:12Speaker 2: Well, that's that's important. We were bearing. We're bearing that
- 20:16Speaker 2: story because throughout this entire show, obviously Adam and his
- 20:22Speaker 2: dad have a very very special bond over baseball, and
- 20:29Speaker 2: Adam is trying to have his son, who the one
- 20:33Speaker 2: that they find out is autistic, play baseball, and the
- 20:36Speaker 2: son's just not jiving with it. He's like, I what,
- 20:39Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, YadA, yah, YadA. And
- 20:42Speaker 2: so they come to the realization like, okay, let's not
- 20:45Speaker 2: force Max play baseball, but like whatever, And at the
- 20:51Speaker 2: end the you know, the day of his baseball game,
- 20:54Speaker 2: they're you know, they're skipping it and and they're playing
- 20:57Speaker 2: uh or they're eating dinner with the family. One thing
- 21:00Speaker 2: I forgot to mention is Adam is the baseball coach,
- 21:06Speaker 2: so you know there's a.
- 21:07Speaker 3: Lot which he got fired from that he rejected.
- 21:10Speaker 1: Yeah, and and this, and Max is like, hey, it's
- 21:16Speaker 1: baseball time, like and they all like just stop what
- 21:20Speaker 1: they're doing, and they're like it's basebook.
- 21:22Speaker 3: You know, like, oh my god, let's go now.
- 21:25Speaker 4: I couldn't.
- 21:26Speaker 3: So I love the outdoor sort of family meals that
- 21:29Speaker 3: they have. They definitely have one at Zeke and I
- 21:33Speaker 3: can't remember the mom's name, but Zeke's wife Bonnie Badelia,
- 21:37Speaker 3: And I can't tell if they were at Zeke's again
- 21:40Speaker 3: or if they were at house, yeah I can, or
- 21:45Speaker 3: if they were at Adam's house that time. But anyway,
- 21:47Speaker 3: they have these great family meals they do. It's like,
- 21:50Speaker 3: did you kind of get the like, oh my gosh,
- 21:52Speaker 3: this is the ultimate family, right.
- 21:54Speaker 4: It's messy, but these people love each other so much.
- 21:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I did feel that way, and I just I
- 22:02Speaker 2: love that they're all like together, but they're there. Their
- 22:06Speaker 2: lives cannot be more different. That's what makes it really
- 22:09Speaker 2: really fun. It's because even like the mom and dad,
- 22:12Speaker 2: like the you know, the the zel like their storyline
- 22:18Speaker 2: is different than you know, Adam and his wife.
- 22:23Speaker 3: Well, and Erica Christiansen who is married to Jules. She's
- 22:27Speaker 3: obviously the bread winner attorney and he's sort of more
- 22:30Speaker 3: of the.
- 22:30Speaker 4: Stay at home dad.
- 22:32Speaker 3: And the daughter likes the dad, like the dad the
- 22:36Speaker 3: cutter meat. She wants the dad, which is so relatable
- 22:39Speaker 3: I think for a lot.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Of like work, Oh yeah, I mean, I I yeah,
- 22:46Speaker 2: I mean my son is is is attached to my head.
- 22:50Speaker 2: But John's always like, is there gonna be a day
- 22:53Speaker 2: that the tale wants me to like serve him dinner?
- 22:55Speaker 2: And I'm like, one day, but.
- 22:58Speaker 3: It isn't imagine it was, or imagine Mateo was like
- 23:01Speaker 3: so connected to the nanny, you'd feel like.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. But it's just like it's one of
- 23:08Speaker 2: those things that all these storylines are so different, then
- 23:11Speaker 2: no matter what stage of life you're in, you can
- 23:13Speaker 2: relate to one.
- 23:15Speaker 3: And it's you realize that Zeke craik ty Nilson, I mean,
- 23:20Speaker 3: for all his faults, he is a great dad because
- 23:23Speaker 3: when Adam Braverman says to him, something's wrong with my kid,
- 23:27Speaker 3: and at first, you know, Grandpa's like no, no, no,
- 23:30Speaker 3: and then he's like he says, I need your help,
- 23:32Speaker 3: and you just feel it where he's like he's basically
- 23:35Speaker 3: like in right. These people are. They have their ups
- 23:38Speaker 3: and downs and that times they're so annoyed with each other,
- 23:40Speaker 3: but they're so in right.
- 23:42Speaker 4: They're just yeah, they're going to be loyal.
- 23:44Speaker 2: And even with Lauren's character, you know, she was away
- 23:47Speaker 2: for a minute and then she's now back living with
- 23:50Speaker 2: her parents, and it was just one of those things
- 23:53Speaker 2: that they're like, yeah, we'll take you in, you know,
- 23:56Speaker 2: like they are definitely you can tell, for as much
- 23:59Speaker 2: as they got going on and for how much drama
- 24:01Speaker 2: they have in each of their own lives, that they
- 24:03Speaker 2: that they are a family and that they love each
- 24:06Speaker 2: other and they're going to stick by each other.
- 24:08Speaker 3: They live in Berkeley, So for anyone from like the
- 24:11Speaker 3: Bay Area, northern California.
- 24:13Speaker 4: It's so cool they live in Berkeley. The house is
- 24:16Speaker 4: very Berkeley. They're very berkeley Ish, right, Like.
- 24:20Speaker 3: You definitely get the sort of like hippie granola vibe from.
- 24:25Speaker 4: Zeke and the Camille yep, Camil, And I think we're to.
- 24:31Speaker 3: Understand that maybe uh Dax Shepherd's character lives in Tiberon.
- 24:37Speaker 4: That really looks Tibberoni to.
- 24:38Speaker 3: Me, maybe soft Thelido kind of just to cross one
- 24:41Speaker 3: of the bridges in a really cool place where that's
- 24:45Speaker 3: you see that, I mean, I think that was definitely
- 24:47Speaker 3: shot up here. When he meets Shabbar for the first time,
- 24:52Speaker 3: you get excited to like join these people, right the
- 24:57Speaker 3: pilot is so well done that you learn who these
- 25:01Speaker 3: people are.
- 25:02Speaker 4: And you're like, Okay, I want to learn more about
- 25:03Speaker 4: all these.
- 25:04Speaker 2: People, I'm it exactly and you're and you're you're so
- 25:07Speaker 2: in and you're so like you feel like you're part
- 25:09Speaker 2: of the family in a weird way.
- 25:20Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite? Is there anyone who're sort
- 25:23Speaker 3: of like really like?
- 25:25Speaker 4: I think I like them?
- 25:26Speaker 2: Okay, well it's a two part answer to this question.
- 25:30Speaker 2: I think I relate to Adam Braverman's storyline the most,
- 25:34Speaker 2: with you know, like navigating life with a young kid
- 25:38Speaker 2: and like the obstacles that you have with that and
- 25:40Speaker 2: being a parent and you know that kind of stuff.
- 25:43Speaker 2: I'm I resonate with his storyline, but I'm very drawn
- 25:48Speaker 2: to Doax's, like, very drawn. I think there's something super
- 25:51Speaker 2: fascinating about his storyline. I love him. I haven't seen
- 25:56Speaker 2: much of him as an actor, Like I haven't seen
- 25:58Speaker 2: the party.
- 25:59Speaker 3: You look different, don't you think Like he's looks like
- 26:01Speaker 3: a little bit different. Maybe it's the long hair, I
- 26:03Speaker 3: don't know what, but maybe it's just because he's so
- 26:05Speaker 3: much younger.
- 26:06Speaker 4: What year was this again? So fifteen years ago?
- 26:09Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty ten, And I haven't seen projects that he's acted.
- 26:13Speaker 2: And I know he was an actor or is an actor,
- 26:16Speaker 2: but this, I'm like, I'm very very drawn to his storyline.
- 26:21Speaker 2: I think, I like, I'm very intrigued and excited to
- 26:24Speaker 2: see how it all unfolds.
- 26:26Speaker 3: I just love it all, like it's so so good
- 26:30Speaker 3: and it's so funny, little like pivots. Danielle and I
- 26:34Speaker 3: met with two people from the show we won't name
- 26:36Speaker 3: because I don't know if they want us to name them,
- 26:38Speaker 3: but and they were talking about doing a Parenthood rewatch.
- 26:41Speaker 3: And it's like, I feel like, I want the Cat
- 26:45Speaker 3: to do a Parenthood rewatch.
- 26:47Speaker 2: I want all of them to do it though, because
- 26:49Speaker 2: that's like the like I want the I want Lauren
- 26:51Speaker 2: on it, I want DAGs, I want Yeah, Peter, I
- 26:55Speaker 2: want all of them. One thing I do I did.
- 26:59Speaker 2: I don't know if you really when you watched, I
- 27:01Speaker 2: realized it. And then our our producer Jackie put on
- 27:04Speaker 2: our rundown and and I'm like, oh, that's so sad.
- 27:07Speaker 2: At the end it said like in you know, Loving
- 27:09Speaker 2: Memory of Norah was that?
- 27:11Speaker 4: Who was that?
- 27:12Speaker 2: So she was an NBC executive who died on location.
- 27:17Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I kind of remember that. Do you know
- 27:20Speaker 4: why or how?
- 27:21Speaker 1: So?
- 27:21Speaker 2: She she died after collapsing while on vacationion in Berkeley.
- 27:26Speaker 2: She she had said that she felt dizzy and then
- 27:28Speaker 2: she collapsed, and then when she was she was obviously
- 27:31Speaker 2: taking the hospital, and she was pronounced that at the hospital.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know, but imagine that's so that's
- 27:38Speaker 2: so tragic, traumatizing, so traumatizing, but oh my god, I
- 27:44Speaker 2: can only imagine. But I saw that at the end,
- 27:46Speaker 2: I was like, oh, no, I wonder you know what
- 27:48Speaker 2: that was about. And then now reading about it, I
- 27:50Speaker 2: was like, Oh, no, that is that is that is
- 27:52Speaker 2: truly heartbreaking.
- 27:53Speaker 4: Oh that's so sad. I didn't Yeah, I didn't know that.
- 27:56Speaker 3: I didn't know who that was.
- 27:58Speaker 4: And I'm glad you looked it up.
- 28:02Speaker 3: It's interesting that I don't mean to quickly pivot from that,
- 28:05Speaker 3: but like you can tell, they shot a lot of it,
- 28:09Speaker 3: sort of some of the exteriors up here. I think
- 28:11Speaker 3: they shoot most of the show in LA but they
- 28:15Speaker 3: do come up I think from time, or they did
- 28:18Speaker 3: from time to time to do sort of the you know,
- 28:22Speaker 3: exterior sort of Berkeley, San Francisco Bay area or in shot.
- 28:28Speaker 2: And that's so funny because it's like that's your hometown.
- 28:31Speaker 4: Well, it's so funny. I'm gonna watch it differently than
- 28:35Speaker 4: the first time.
- 28:35Speaker 3: I don't.
- 28:36Speaker 4: I mean, obviously I.
- 28:37Speaker 3: Cared, but I definitely am sort of like looking like
- 28:40Speaker 3: in that exterior where they talk about where they were,
- 28:44Speaker 3: Monica Potter and Peter Krawsold talk about Max having autism.
- 28:49Speaker 3: I don't know if that was La or Northern California.
- 28:52Speaker 3: That looked a little bit more like that was maybe
- 28:53Speaker 3: shot in La.
- 28:54Speaker 5: Amy, I have a question for you, sure about this?
- 28:57Speaker 5: They have a scene in Oscars Hamburgers that's did you
- 29:03Speaker 5: ever go there? Because that's a true iconic place in Berkeley.
- 29:05Speaker 3: No, no, but I I love that scene. And also
- 29:09Speaker 3: I think it's hilarious that he's making fun of Adam
- 29:12Speaker 3: for uh.
- 29:13Speaker 4: Having a veggie burger. But there are things like that.
- 29:16Speaker 3: I mean, I think they I remember blurbally, but I'll
- 29:21Speaker 3: pay better attention as we rewatched where they shot up.
- 29:25Speaker 2: Here, does they need to take a field trip to Oscars?
- 29:28Speaker 5: For sure?
- 29:29Speaker 4: Wait, larious, Oscar.
- 29:31Speaker 5: It's shut down?
- 29:35Speaker 4: Where was it? Was it on Shattuck? Where was it?
- 29:39Speaker 5: We look up the address?
- 29:40Speaker 3: Let me see and I will say, if you want
- 29:43Speaker 3: a great burger in Berkeley, go to Bongo Burger, which
- 29:46Speaker 3: is like it's a great Burger. It's like a little
- 29:50Speaker 3: there's a I think there's two locations, but one on
- 29:52Speaker 3: Telegraph and one on North side. Berkeley is cool, right,
- 29:55Speaker 3: I lived in Berkeley for a long time.
- 29:56Speaker 5: It's shatuck.
- 29:59Speaker 3: I said that, whoa, Berkeley is a cool, cool, cool town.
- 30:05Speaker 4: It really is. My mom grew up in Berkeley.
- 30:07Speaker 3: So the fact that they're from Berkeley, and like I said,
- 30:10Speaker 3: they they they are real Berkeley like Seek especially and
- 30:15Speaker 3: Camille and the house and the whole thing. So anyway, uh,
- 30:19Speaker 3: I I don't know what else to ask Daniel, there's
- 30:22Speaker 3: any other standouts or sort of like I'd love to
- 30:25Speaker 3: have you rate it, like I'd love to know.
- 30:26Speaker 2: What you Oh, I like, uh, this is a nine
- 30:32Speaker 2: point seventy five.
- 30:33Speaker 4: Yeah, for me, it's a ten. It's a tent of
- 30:35Speaker 4: a pilot. It's a tent.
- 30:36Speaker 2: It's like I'm not giving for a pilot for sure,
- 30:40Speaker 2: Like it is definitely way high up there. I think
- 30:44Speaker 2: I'm only docking point twenty five because I need to.
- 30:50Speaker 2: I can't give a ten out of the out of
- 30:52Speaker 2: the gate. Like I'm like, I gotta I gotta like
- 30:54Speaker 2: keep it going.
- 30:55Speaker 3: It's interesting how I think something that's kind of interesting
- 30:58Speaker 3: for me is Gilmour Girls was on for seven years,
- 31:02Speaker 3: This was on for five.
- 31:04Speaker 4: And how amazing this is.
- 31:06Speaker 3: And yes, people obviously bring up Sarah Braverman to Lauren
- 31:09Speaker 3: all the time, even yeah Alex Cooper did, but that
- 31:13Speaker 3: she because she still is Laura LII. Right, You're like, okay,
- 31:18Speaker 3: you still are a Laura Li But yet she played this.
- 31:21Speaker 4: Sarah Braverman and she's amazing in it. Like it's just weird.
- 31:25Speaker 3: How like she has this part which she's equally as
- 31:28Speaker 3: good at, like honestly, and the character is equally as amazing.
- 31:32Speaker 4: How just she is more Lareli.
- 31:34Speaker 3: I don't know what makes one show become that, you
- 31:38Speaker 3: know what I mean?
- 31:39Speaker 4: Am I making sense what I'm sort of saying.
- 31:41Speaker 2: Yeah, you totally makes sense. I will say, like I,
- 31:46Speaker 2: you know, had my thoughts about butt heads and whatnot,
- 31:50Speaker 2: and look whatever. It was an entertaining show, but at
- 31:54Speaker 2: its core it did annoy me. And it was kind
- 31:57Speaker 2: of like just it was it was homewark watching it.
- 32:02Speaker 3: I'm going to it's not this, It's not this, right,
- 32:05Speaker 3: it's not Yeah, it was homemark watching it is a
- 32:08Speaker 3: great way to describe it, because I last last night
- 32:12Speaker 3: when I was watching this, I'm like, dang, I love
- 32:14Speaker 3: this show.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Yeah, and it took everything in me. I watched this
- 32:19Speaker 2: last week and it took everything in me to not
- 32:22Speaker 2: watch the second episode.
- 32:23Speaker 5: I was like, do not.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Watch it, do not watch it, do not watch it.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Like that is the effect Gomere Girls had on me,
- 32:29Speaker 2: where I just kept wanting to watch.
- 32:31Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I get it.
- 32:32Speaker 3: I mean I and I'm not going to jump to
- 32:35Speaker 3: the end, but I will just in this little tibo.
- 32:37Speaker 3: I can't remember if I told you, Like I was
- 32:42Speaker 3: so upset when this show ended, for many reasons which
- 32:46Speaker 3: I will not reveal, Like I remember telling Ryan Seacrest
- 32:49Speaker 3: about it and fully crying, like fully fully crying, and
- 32:56Speaker 3: of course Ryan got out the camera, so there is
- 32:58Speaker 3: footage of me just for breaking down.
- 33:01Speaker 4: But like, I really got connected to these characters, right, Like, yeah,
- 33:06Speaker 4: you really really really like these people. For sure, there's
- 33:11Speaker 4: not one of them. I think you said this is
- 33:13Speaker 4: not one of them.
- 33:14Speaker 2: I don't like, yeah, I'm here, I'm here for it all.
- 33:17Speaker 3: You're even gonna like Seth the ex husband of Sarah Braverman,
- 33:21Speaker 3: especially when it's John Corbett.
- 33:23Speaker 2: I just cannot believe it turns into John Corbett.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Oh yeah, John Corby being awesome.
- 33:29Speaker 4: I love John Corbett.
- 33:31Speaker 2: I did too, I just wouldn't expect him. I don't know.
- 33:34Speaker 3: I can't wait for it and just like that to
- 33:37Speaker 3: come back.
- 33:37Speaker 4: I love John Corbett.
- 33:41Speaker 3: So I do give this a ten. I'm trying to
- 33:43Speaker 3: think if there's anything else. Oh, you know, the Gilmour connections. Obviously,
- 33:47Speaker 3: Peter Kraus and May Whitman were in a Year.
- 33:50Speaker 2: In the Life, obviously, Lauren.
- 33:53Speaker 3: There's a lot of others that pop up.
- 33:55Speaker 4: I think Rose Abdo's in parenthood.
- 33:58Speaker 3: Jason Ritter is definitely in parenthood. Who was he was
- 34:01Speaker 3: in a Year in the Life. There's a few other
- 34:04Speaker 3: sort of Gilmore Girls things that show up.
- 34:07Speaker 2: This is definitely a breath of fresh air in comparison
- 34:10Speaker 2: to Bunheads. This is I am so happy you guys.
- 34:14Speaker 2: I'm so happy that you voted for this.
- 34:16Speaker 3: Now I will say Mazel, Yes, it's great. Mazel is
- 34:20Speaker 3: also really good. Like there's very little to criticize about Mazel,
- 34:23Speaker 3: like there is Bunheads. It's totally different than this. So yeah,
- 34:28Speaker 3: I mean this is you get the you get the
- 34:31Speaker 3: Friday night light vibes, you get the this is us vibes.
- 34:34Speaker 3: You get sort of what we got going here. I'd
- 34:37Speaker 3: call it a drama with bits of comedy. It's definitely
- 34:40Speaker 3: not even a dramaedy, right, It's like it's a drama.
- 34:45Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean the next episode, episode two, Man
- 34:51Speaker 2: versus Possum. I love possums. I think they're so cute.
- 34:54Speaker 3: And that's the thing, there's always there's always like two bits.
- 34:57Speaker 4: Of comedy in the of them.
- 35:01Speaker 3: Anyway, I loved it. I'm so glad we're doing it.
- 35:04Speaker 3: Hopefully you guys like how we're kind of doing it.
- 35:06Speaker 3: We'll give us any notes of how you want us
- 35:09Speaker 3: to talk about it.
- 35:10Speaker 4: But I think next week we'll dig.
- 35:12Speaker 3: Into the storylines too, because they're all so relatable. I mean,
- 35:16Speaker 3: I think Erica Christiansen and Joel Sorry to blur the
- 35:20Speaker 3: actors names of the characters and things. That is going
- 35:22Speaker 3: to be my problem during this because I'm definitely gonna
- 35:26Speaker 3: like to say the actor and like Monica Potter, Oh
- 35:29Speaker 3: my gosh, you's so good a mes Yeah, no, it's
- 35:32Speaker 3: just great. Just wait, it's crazy, all right? Next week
- 35:36Speaker 3: more parenthood.
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